Prisoner X2

"Prisoner X2" (in Hebrew: "האסיר איקס 2" or "X2 האסיר") is a placeholder name of a Mossad agent (described as an "important operative") who, as of 2014, reportedly has been secretly imprisoned in Israel for about a decade, after he was convicted of treason (spying for a foreign power).[1]

Reports about Prisoner X2

First details about a "second Prisoner X" being secretly held in Ayalon Prison emerged in 2013, following the exposure of the death of Ben Zygier. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who chaired the Knesset Committee on Defense and Foreign Affairs, told Knesset members the case was "extremely serious" but that the prisoner's rights were being upheld.[2] Prominent Israeli lawyer Avigdor Feldman described this case as "a terrible security breach", and "much more grave, sensational, amazing and riveting from Zygier's case."[3][4] The case was kept under wraps in Israel, and reports about it were deleted from Israeli news sites.[5][6]

References
  1. Dan Raviv, Yossi Melman (February 27, 2014). "At Least 2 Mossad Spies were Held in Israeli Prisons: One Committed Suicide, and Now Some Details on the Second Man — a World Exclusive".
  2. "Israel 'secretly holds second Prisoner X' in jail". BBC News. 12 July 2013.
  3. "Feldman: there is at least one more secret prisoner in Israel". Ynet (in Hebrew). July 9, 2013.
  4. "Israel secretly holds 'Prisoner X2' for security breach: lawyer". Reuters. July 9, 2013.
  5. "In 2014, Maariv reported that according to foreign reports, a Mossad operative is being held in an Israeli prison for about a decade for treason". Maariv (in Hebrew). March 1, 2014.
  6. "Secrets behind death of spy Ben Zygier revealed in new book, Prisoner X, by Rafael Epstein". The Sydney Morning Herald. February 22, 2014.
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